The Gay Lesbian Transgender and Queer area of the Mid Atlantic
American/Popular Culture Conference (Baltimore MD, October 27-29, 2006)
welcomes proposals on the representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, transsexual, and transvestite communities in popular culture.
 We encourage discussion of such issues in any medium of popular culture,
such as TV, movies, Internet and computer games, journalism, billboards
and advertising, comics and graphic novels, stand up comedy, novels,
nonfiction literature, music, theatre or politics and punditry.
Some topics such abstracts might explore include the following:
self-discovery, life phases, cross-group alliances, and family in LGBTQ

The Gay Lesbian Transgender and Queer area of the Mid Atlantic
American/Popular Culture Conference (Baltimore MD, October 27-29, 2006)
welcomes proposals on the representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual,
transgender, transsexual, and transvestite communities in popular culture.
 We encourage discussion of such issues in any medium of popular culture,
such as TV, movies, Internet and computer games, journalism, billboards
and advertising, comics and graphic novels, stand up comedy, novels,
nonfiction literature, music, theatre or politics and punditry.
Some topics such abstracts might explore include the following:
self-discovery, life phases, cross-group alliances, and family in LGBTQ

BlankIn-between: Essays & Studies in Literary Criticism=20

Submissions are invited on any aspect on Virginia Woolf=92s _Orlando_ . =
Two or Three short essays, 4000 words or less, will be included in an =20
otherwise open issue. Submissions must be received by the end of June.=20
Please contact the editor for any other information.=20

Gulshan Taneja / Editor,=20
Department of English, R.L.A. College, University of Delhi,=20
Post Box 5205, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi-110 021, India=20
<grtaneja47_at_hotmail.com>; <inbetween_at_rediffmail.com>

The Marxist Literary Group will be holding its annual Institute on
Culture and Society at Georgetown University, June 8-12. This year's
theme, "The Materialist Suture," is intended to focus discussion on the
ties that bind cultural and theoretical production to their material
conditions of possibility. As always, however, any proposal that
engages seriously with Marxist thought will be considered. Panels
already accepted include "New French Marxism," "The Dialectical Image
Revisited," "Recent Russian Research on the Repressions of the 1930s in
the USSR," "New Feminist Marxisms," "What is the 'Corporate
University,'" "Marxism and Animal Studies," "Progressive Nostalgia:

CALL FOR PAPERS â€" THE GOTHIC AND ADDICTION

CALL FOR PAPERS â€" THE GOTHIC AND ADDICTION

CFP: Gynaecology and British Culture, 1500 - 2000

Proposals are currently being sought for a collection of essays exploring the
history of British gynaecology between 1500 and 2000. The collection will be
edited by Andrew Mangham (University of Sheffield) and Greta Depledge (Birkbeck
College, University of London). We are particularly interested in essays with
an interdisciplinary approach. Possible subjects include, though are not
limited to:

CFP: Gynaecology and British Culture, 1500 - 2000

Proposals are currently being sought for a collection of essays exploring the
history of British gynaecology between 1500 and 2000. The collection will be
edited by Andrew Mangham (University of Sheffield) and Greta Depledge (Birkbeck
College, University of London). We are particularly interested in essays with
an interdisciplinary approach. Possible subjects include, though are not
limited to:

CFP: Gynaecology and British Culture, 1500 - 2000

Proposals are currently being sought for a collection of essays exploring the
history of British gynaecology between 1500 and 2000. The collection will be
edited by Andrew Mangham (University of Sheffield) and Greta Depledge (Birkbeck
College, University of London). We are particularly interested in essays with
an interdisciplinary approach. Possible subjects include, though are not
limited to:

Deadline Extended:

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UPDATE: Postmodern Stages And Beyond -- The Deadline for Paper =
Proposals has been extended to May 30, 2006.

NOTE: At this stage we are especially interested in essays about early =
Twentieth-Century playwrights -- such as Pirandello -- who were quick to =
adopt metatheatrical features which would eventually fall under the =
stylistic rubric of postmodernism.

Postmodern Stages And Beyond:
Early Meta-theatrical Innovation and Late-Postmodern Debate

Framework Conference
November 3-4, 2006
Keynote Speaker: Laura Mulvey

We are pleased to announce that the first annual Framework (Wayne State =
University Press) conference will take place on Nov 3-4, 2006 at =
Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma. With a keynote =
address by Laura Mulvey, the conference will gather international film, =
television and new media scholars to address a central issue. The theme =
of our first meeting raises the appropriately fundamental but none too =
simple question of =93The Future of Theory.=94=20

Deadline Extended:

=20

UPDATE: Postmodern Stages And Beyond -- The Deadline for Paper =
Proposals has been extended to May 30, 2006.

NOTE: At this stage we are especially interested in essays about early =
Twentieth-Century playwrights -- such as Pirandello -- who were quick to =
adopt metatheatrical features which would eventually fall under the =
stylistic rubric of postmodernism.

Postmodern Stages And Beyond:
Early Meta-theatrical Innovation and Late-Postmodern Debate

The Departments of English & Comparative Literature and Rhetoric & Writing
Studies are proud to present the 14th Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate
Student Conference: San Diego State University
Crisis Carnival 2006

aesthetic INVASIONS / articulate EVASIONS

An interdisciplinary discussion of the humanities
Saturday, October 21st, 2006

Scholars from all fields are invited to submit: papers, poetry, fiction,
artwork & films

Seminar:
In Our Hands: Black Theatre at the Crossroads

Leaders:
Jean Young, Cornell University
Robert Craig Baum, European Graduate School

ASTR 2006 CONFERENCE
FIFTIETH ANNIVERASRY OF THE FOUNDING OF ASTR
Hotel Allegro, Chicago November 16-19, 2006

Conference Theme: AMERICAN: SOCIETY : THEATRE : RESEARCH

 * * * The deadline for submission is May 31, 2006 midnight. * * *

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The question is not whether or not Black Theatre is valid so much as
it is recognizing that it is in an invalid state and must recover its
protean expressive force to survive the next millennium.